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Journalist Obtains Exclusive Access to World Report on Summorum Pontificum: Francis' Restrictions Based on Lies

 


American journalist Diane Montagna, who has long covered the Vatican, has obtained an explosive exclusive document: the original summary and report of the Global Assessment of the Application of Summorum Pontificum, the 2007 document by Pope Benedict XVI that freed the Traditional Latin Mass and Liturgy.


Summorum Pontificum itself foresaw a report, in order to adjust any issues with implementation -- and the report now obtained was generally positive. As Montagna reports:


The previously undisclosed text, which forms a crucial part of the official report by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on its 2020 consultation of bishops concerning Summorum Pontificum, reveals that “the majority of bishops who responded to the questionnaire stated that making legislative changes to Summorum Pontificum would cause more harm than good.”


The overall assessment directly contradicts, therefore, the stated rationale for imposing Traditionis Custodes and raises serious questions about its credibility. [source]


We all knew that the report was probably more positive than negative, because we all could see with our own eyes the very positive developments on the ground: greater reverence, an increase in respect in the celebration of the Novus Ordo, and the gradual end of the painful separation between Catholics now living in the same parish. There were negative issues, as it happens with any human endeavor, but they were far outweighed by the positive aspects.


Since the report was the basis of the limitations (and plan of gradual extinction of the Traditional Latin Mass) established by Francis' document Traditionis Custodes, ghost-written by radical liturgist Andrea Grillo for Francis, we know that the document itself, in addition to being doctrinally illegitimate (since it claims to extinguish what no pope can extinguish), is also procedurally illegitimate and inept. Based on lies, deceptions, no wonder it is a purely evil document.


The following links are provided by Montagna:

CDF Overall Assessment of 2020 Survey of Bishops on Implementation of Summorum Pontificum - English (PDF)


CDF Collection of Quotations Drawn from Responses Received from Dioceses - English (PDF)


2020 CDF Questionnaire on Implementation of Summorum Pontificum (PDF), which Rorate had published exclusively at the time as well.